Luna Loupe: Erotica & More

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Up next is a sci-fi story in which a xenobiologist discovers that her passion for alien life runs much deeper - and much more physically - than she expected. Have a little teaser:

Linda was so focused on the alien
creature that she hardly noticed as something brushed against her ankle.

I’ll
have such excellent data from this! She thought exultantly, holding her
communicator steady as it took in video, audio and a range of other more
eclectic data. It couldn’t compare with what they could learn from a live
specimen, but as yet they had no way to judge how fragile this ecosystem might
be and no clearance to take live animals.

The six-legged creature turned to
her. It regarded her for a long moment, nictating membranes sliding over its
eyes and back like the shutter of a camera – and in a few swift bounds it fled,
moving quicker than she could hope to track.

She sighed. Even a few moments’
worth of data were priceless, here, even if she had hoped to observe this
creature longer. I’m sure I’ll find more
of its kind here, she thought.

Linda turned and took a step, ready
to move on, only to topple headlong to the ground. Just as she was about to
impact with the spongy forest floor, something looped round her waist, halting
her fall but knocking the breath from her all the same.

Breathless and confused, she looked
round to see what in the world had happened. To her shock, something like a
thick, almost fleshy cable had looped around her ankle, and its larger twin had
her by the waist. Her eyes followed the strange snaking things back to their
source… the undulating coils of the anemone-like thing she had previously
assumed to be a plant.